Marbled Raspberry Pound Cake

smittenkitchen.com · Servings: 8

Against 462 pound cake recipes

Less butter than 94% of recipes and less egg than 95%.

How it compares

Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.

Less butter than 94% of recipes: 59% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
Less egg than 95% of recipes: 51% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
More leavening than 94% of recipes: 4.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%, about 3 times as much.

Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

1 cup (200 grams) granulated sugar200 g
1/4 teaspoon fine sea or table salt≈ 1.5 g
Finely grated zest from half a lemonn/a
1/2 cup (115 grams) unsalted butter115 g
2 large eggs≈ 100 g
2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 9 g
1 cup (130 grams) all-purpose flour plus 1/2 cup (65 grams) all-purpose flour, divided195 g
1/2 cup (125 grams) sour cream, creme fraiche, or full-fat plain yogurt125 g
1 gently heaped cup (140 grams or 5 ounces) fresh raspberries140 g

Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.

3/4 cup (90 grams) powdered sugar90 g
1 tablespoon raspberry puree (for a pink glaze, from a few tablespoons or 1 ounce fresh raspberries), or lemon juice≈ 8 g
1 to 2 tablespoons milk≈ 23 g

flour 195 gbatter 886 g

≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.

Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 462 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.

Nearest by baker's percentages: butter, sugar, egg, dairy, leavening, salt.